OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Directions in Psychological Science is 15. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Parsing ADHD With Temperament Traits	131
How Mindsets Can Mitigate or Sustain Prejudice	111
Are We in Time? How Predictive Coding and Dynamical Systems Explain Musical Synchrony	109
Positive Affect Dynamics	80
The Golden Rule as a Paradigm for Fostering Prosocial Behavior With Virtual Reality	75
Music, Memory, and Imagination	72
Historical Psychology	67
Estimating the Time to Do Nothing: Toward Next-Generation Models of Response Inhibition	56
The Antecedents of Transformer Models	54
Well-Being After Psychopathology: A Transformational Research Agenda	53
Cognitive Control in Schizophrenia: Advances in Computational Approaches	47
How Children Develop Healthy Behavioral Choices to Promote Illness Prevention	47
Traces of Our Past: The Social Representation of the Physical World	46
From Words to Worlds: Twenty-Five Years of Advances in Situation Model Research	40
The Virtually Intelligent Negotiator: Building Trust and Maximizing Economic Gain in E-Negotiations	37
The Link Between Companion Dogs, Human Fertility Rates, and Social Networks	33
Sidelining Bias: A Situationist Approach to Reduce the Consequences of Bias in Real-World Contexts	31
Institutional Inversion and “Demand-Side” Versus “Supply-Side” Views of Culture	30
What Autism Taught Us About Our Social Nature	30
Motivated Egalitarianism	29
Autobiographical Memory Disturbances in Schizophrenia and the Psychosis Continuum: Integrating New Insights	29
A Romantic-Partner Model of Mental Health	28
An Integrated Immuno-Reward Model of Adolescent Depression: Theory, Evidence, and Implications	28
The New Psychology of Secrecy	27
Acknowledgment	27

Emotional Acculturation: Emotions as a Pathway to Social Integration	26
The Social Congruency Framework: Mapping Different Types of Social Consumption Experiences	26
Work Identity and Future Research on Work as a Calling	26
Interdependent Minds: Quantifying the Dynamics of Successful Social Interactions	24
Bayes in the Age of Intelligent Machines	24
The Cascading Development of Visual Attention in Infancy: Learning to Look and Looking to Learn	23
Do Social Networking Sites Influence Well-Being? The Extended Active-Passive Model	23
Agency Through the We: Group-Based Control Theory	23
Parenting by Lying	23
Attachment as Prediction: Insights From Cognitive and Developmental Neuroscience	22
The Neural Basis of Visual Search in Scene Context	22
Emerging Principles of Attention and Information Demand	22
Lessons for the Next Pandemic: What Children Taught Us About Navigating New Social Norms During COVID-19	22
Intraindividual Conflicts Reduce the Polarization of Attitudes	22
Romania’s Abandoned Children: The Effects of Early Profound Psychosocial Deprivation on the Course of Human Development	21
The Communicative Principle of Relevance	21
The PATHS to Purpose: A New Framework Toward Understanding Purpose Development	20
“Asian” Is a Problematic Category in Research and Practice: Insights From the Bamboo Ceiling	19
Emerging Insights on the Role of Social Networks in Intergroup Friendship	19
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work: A Functional-Identity Perspective	19
Revising a Self-Regulation Phenotype for Depression Through Individual Differences in Macroscale Brain Organization	19
The Promise and Peril of Genetics	19
Color-Evasive Cognition: The Unavoidable Impact of Scientific Racism in the Founding of a Field	19
Privacy Preferences and the Drive to Disclose	19
Everybody Hurts: Intersecting and Colliding Epidemics and the Need for Integrated Behavioral Treatment of Chronic Pain and Substance Use	18
Consequences of Bilingual Language Coactivation for Higher Order Cognition	18
Five Misconceptions About Consensually Nonmonogamous Relationships	18
Names Matter: Implications of Name “Whitening” for Ethnic Minority Discrimination and Well-Being	18
Geometry and Force Dynamics in Simple Spatial Terms: Two Theories, One Resolution	18
Psychological Science Meets Wearable Cognitive Assistance	18
Learning and Transfer: A Perspective From Action Video Game Play	18
Conspiracy Theories: Groups, Ideology, and Status as Three Distinct Bases for Expressions in Society	16
Winner Takes All! What Are Race Models, and Why and How Should Psychologists Use Them?	16
Ecospirituality	16
Blood Pressure and Social Algesia: The Unexpected Relationship Between the Cardiovascular System and Sensitivity to Social Pain	16
The Wobbly Bits of Development: Variability, Fluctuations, and Synchrony as Temporal Markers Linking Temperament and Psychopathology	15
Dimensions of Stereotypes About Groups	15
The Privilege of Well-Being in an Increasingly Unequal Society	15
Disadvantaged-Group Members’ Experiences of Life Transitions: The Positive Impact of Social Connectedness and Group Memberships	15